A Sunday Times bestseller, the dazzling new novel from Costa Novel Award-winner Maggie O'Farrell THIS MUST BE THE PLACE crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage.
'A tour de force... her best novel to date, a book that surely confirms her as one of the UK's most assured, accomplished and inventive storytellers' *Observer*
'Her most ambitious novel to date... one of this summer's most anticipated reads' *Sunday Times*
**'Inventive, moving and hilarious. I loved it' Rachel Joyce
Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California, a father he loathes in Brooklyn and a wife, Claudette, who is a reclusive ex-film star given to shooting at anyone who ventures up their driveway.
He is also about to find out something about a woman he lost touch with twenty years ago, and this discovery will send him off-course, far away from wife and home. Will his love for Claudette be enough to bring him back?
**
Review
�Maggie O�Farrell is a hugely gifted, sympathetic, and ambitious writer, and THIS MUST BE THE PLACE will send this reader�and, I suspect, many others�racing to her backlist.�
�Richard Russo, best-selling author of Everybody�s Fool
�Inventing, moving, and hilarious.� I loved it.��
�Rachel Joyce, best-selling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
�The scenario is glamourous, the writing is stylish, the globe-trotting almost dizzying, but there�s a satisfying core of untampered�feeling as well�juicy and cool, this could be O�Farrell�s U.S. breakthrough book.���
�Kirkus Reviews, starred
Praise from the UK:
�Stylistically, narratively, emotionally, This Must Be the Place is a tour de force, a complex and nuanced story leaping effortlessly across multiple characters, continents and time frames�.This Must Be The Place is a rare literary beast: both technically dazzling and deeply moving.� It has all the structural and temporal playfulness of a Kate Atkinson novel while retaining the hallmark of emotional intensity for which O�Farrell has become renowned.� It is her best novel to date, a book that surely confirms her as one of the UK�s most assured, accomplished and inventive storytellers.��
�The Guardian
�Complex in scale, but carried off with dazzling grace. A rich, engrossing feast of a novel to lose yourself in.�
�Sunday Mirror
�There is tragedy, but also sharp comedy, and O�Farrell, skillful as ever, plays with the novel form�rewarding and humane.�
�Sunday Express
�Dazzling, her most accomplished book yet.�
�The National
Beautifully executed�a graceful, insightful exploration of a relationship in all its wonders and woes.�
�Mail on Sunday
�Her most ambitious novel to date, crisscrossing the Atlantic and three decades, and told from multiple perspectives, This Must Be the Place is one of the summer�s most anticipated reads.�
�Sunday Times
�A new Maggie O�Farrell book is always a cause for celebration, but her seventh is so brilliant you�ll want to unfurl flags and put up bunting in her honor�.wonderfully written and absolutely addicting.�
�Psychologies Magazine
About the Author
MAGGIE O'FARRELL is the author of six previous novels,�After You�d Gone;�My Lover�s Lover;�The Distance Between Us, which won a Somerset Maugham Award;�The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox;�The Hand That First Held Mine, which won the Costa Book Award; and�Instructions for a Heatwave, which was short-listed for the Costa Book Award. She lives in Edinburgh.�